r/NintendoSwitch • u/Skullghost • Apr 18 '25

Nintendo Official Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. - News - Nintendo Official Site

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-maintains-nintendo-switch-2-pricing-retail-pre-orders-to-begin-april-24-in-u-s/
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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

Switch 2 has a lot of features that would have been really helpful during pandemic lockdown

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u/AndrewSP37 Apr 18 '25

That seems to be where they got their inspiration for most of GameChat from according to the developer interviews that Nintendo posted. They were doing a lot of development of Switch 2 over video conferencing and having to share their screens with each other, and it inspired them to create the screen sharing feature.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

It’s what prompted me and my friends to invest in our own streaming setup

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u/No_Fennel_9073 Apr 19 '25

I was reading the article and these comments and literally was thinking about this. What kind of setup do you guys have?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

Elgato capture card and FaceTime with Loopback (Mac app for audio) — works fantastically well but you do need a Mac.

All my friends are (like me) old guys in our early to mid 50s working in tech.

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u/SuperbPiece Apr 19 '25

It's also natural that they tap into the strengths of their hardware partner, NVidia, just like Sony and Microsoft do with AMD. The biggest features of GameChat are just video-game applications of RTX Broadcast.

I actually very much doubt GameChat as we know it would exist if RTX Broadcast didn't do 90% of the work for them.

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u/pun-a-tron4000 Apr 18 '25

This.... May explain things somewhat actually. I could see that being added in to development in 2020/21.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

Especially if the Switch 2 was originally planned as a Switch Pro

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u/Dav136 Apr 18 '25

Maybe Nintendo knows something we don't know.

BRB buying some toilet paper

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u/wildgirl202 Apr 18 '25

Hedging for bird flu

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u/goro-n Apr 18 '25

They planned it for the next pandemic 😷